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856178

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date	06/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Armed Response Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the announcement entitled Extra armed police to deal with terrorist threat, published by the National Police Chiefs' Council on 1 April 2016, how many additional armed response vehicles have been operationally deployed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	131344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>We are providing £144 million over the spending review period to uplift our armed policing capability and capacity, in order to respond more quickly and effectively to a firearms attack. The first phase of the armed uplift is complete, providing an additional 41 Armed Response Vehicles and around 650 armed officers.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 15/03/2018 19:18:40 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

856179

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve digital skills in the national curriculum.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	131345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The new national curriculum for computing was first taught from September 2014. The new curriculum, which covers Key Stage 1-4, is compulsory in maintained schools and can be used as a benchmark by academies and free schools. It has been designed to ensure that pupils acquire the knowledge they need to become active creators of digital technology, not just passive consumers of it. It focuses on the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including computer programming, abstraction, logic, and algorithms. It also includes digital literacy, e-safety and the application of information technology.</p><p> </p><p>As announced in the 2017 Autumn Budget, the Government will be investing £84 million in a comprehensive programme to improve the teaching of the new computing curriculum in schools. This will include creating a new National Centre for Computing Education, training up to 8,000 existing computer science teachers to teach the GCSE, an A level support programme, and a pilot programme to explore approaches to improve the gender balance in computing.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the £5.8 million we have already invested since 2012 in the Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science. The programme built a national network of over 350 ‘Master Teachers’ that schools could commission to provide bespoke training for their teachers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/03/2018 17:46:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

856180

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mature Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of mature students participating in higher education.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	131346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Studying later in life can bring enormous benefits for individuals, the economy and employers. Many mature students choose to study part-time. We are taking further steps to help hardworking people who want to gain new skills and advance their careers in this way:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The government introduced up-front fee loans for eligible part-time students in 2012/13 to meet the full costs of their tuition.</li><li>We are further enhancing the student finance package for part-time students by introducing maintenance loans equivalent to full-time in 2018/19.</li><li>We intend to extend the part-time maintenance loan to eligible students studying distance-learning courses in 2019/20, subject to the development of a robust control regime to manage the particular risks and challenges associated with this mode of study.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that accelerated courses appeal particularly to mature students who want to retrain and enter the workplace more quickly than a traditional course would permit. We recently completed a public consultation on accelerated degrees, and the government response to this consultation will be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>In our first guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) (published 28 February 2018 ), which sets out our priorities for access and participation plans for 2019/20, we have asked the OfS to encourage higher education providers to consider the recruitment and support of mature learners.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we asked the OfS to help strengthen the focus on part-time study, which should be of particular benefit to many prospective mature learners, where this supports the access and success of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/03/2018 14:57:38 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

856182

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Discharges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) other ranks were discharged on medical grounds from the (i) Royal Navy, (ii) Army and (iii) RAF in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	131348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The following numbers of UK Armed Forces personnel were medically discharged in each of the last five Financial Years, broken down by Service, Officer and Other Rank are shown in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 12/03/2018 16:28:58 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood attachment 1 file name 131348 - Kevan Jones.docx title Numbers of AF Personnel Discharged on Medical Grou
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

856185

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department has issued to parents who are asked to pay a deposit to secure a place at a setting that provides 30 hours of funded childcare.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	131351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The department’s statutory guidance requires local authorities (LAs) to work with providers to ensure that, if providers charge parents a deposit to secure their child’s free place, the deposit is refunded in full to parents within a reasonable time scale. Operational guidance for LAs and providers gives further details, stating that the purpose of the deposit is to give providers certainty that a parent will take up the place. LAs and providers should make it clear to parents that if they fail to take up their place, the provider is not obliged to refund the deposit.</p><p>LAs are responsible for ensuring that all eligible children can take up their place free of charge and that providers’ charging policies, including charging deposits, enable this. LAs must enter into arrangements with childcare providers to ensure the providers comply with legislative requirements. The LA is not required to fund a provider that is unwilling to accept these requirements.</p><p>The department’s statutory guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/682005/Early_education_and_childcare_Statutory_guidance_for-LAs.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/682005/Early_education_and_childcare_Statutory_guidance_for-LAs.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/03/2018 15:30:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

856198

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2018 to Question 121054, for what reasons the Government did not appoint Sir Brian Langstaff to head the public Inquiry before Christmas 2017.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	131364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>As required by the Inquiries Act 2005, the Lord Chief Justice was asked to recommend a judge who, in his view, would be best suited to the Chair the Inquiry. The Lord Chief Justice recommended Sir Brian Langstaff: a highly respected and hugely experienced High Court judge. I accepted the Lord Chief Justice’s recommendation, and Sir Brian agreed to accept the position. It was not possible to complete this process before Christmas.</p><p>Sir Brian and his Inquiry team launched a consultation on the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference on 2 March. The deadline for responses is 26 April. Sir Brian will want to listen carefully to the voices of those that have suffered before making a recommendation to me on what the scope of the Inquiry should be. The Government will ensure that the Inquiry has the resources that it needs to complete its work as quickly as a thorough examination of the facts allows, so that victims and their families can have the answers they have spent decades waiting for, and lessons can be learned so that a tragedy of this scale can never happen again.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 12/03/2018 15:32:23 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

856199

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the support for mortgage interest loan will have implications for a person's credit rating.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	131365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loans are not a typical credit product and as such will not appear on a customer’s credit report. There is no requirement to make monthly repayments and the loan is only recoverable on the sale or transfer of the customer’s property.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/03/2018 12:36:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

856200

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people who take out a mortgage interest loan will be required to notify or seek the permission of their existing mortgage lender to do so.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	131366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Mortgage lenders do not require their borrowers who are Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) claimants to seek their permission to take an SMI loan. The Department will issue and manage SMI loans. The level of support will be calculated in the same way as under the current system and claimants and mortgage lenders will not see any difference in the payments they receive. The Department will notify lenders where a claimant decides to take up the offer of an SMI loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/03/2018 17:42:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

856201

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Support for Mortgage Interest
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provisions there are for the repayment of an SMI loan in the event of bankruptcy or home repossession; and whether such loan repayments will be prioritised over other existing debt in such an event.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	131367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Where possible, a legal charge will be secured over the claimant’s property as security for the Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loan. The legal charge will rank below any pre-existing charges on the property including the mortgage. Pre-existing charge holders will always have priority in recovering their debt from the equity when a house is sold or in the event of bankruptcy and if the amount of equity available after the sale of the property is less than the amount due to be recovered the balance will be written off. Where a customer in receipt of SMI loan becomes bankrupt or enters an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) there is provision for SMI loan payments to continue if the claimant has a continuing liability to make mortgage repayments. The Department does not anticipate that the introduction of SMI loans will lead to an increase in the number of homes that are repossessed.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/03/2018 12:40:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

856202

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 5 March 2018 to Question 130185, on Pre-school Education: Assessments, whether it will be his Department's policy to have early years baseline assessments and the early years foundation stage profile assessments being conducted on the same children in the same academic year.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	131368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>It is government policy that the reception baseline assessment (RBA) will be taken by all children within six weeks of entering reception. The same children will also be observed as part of the early years foundation stage profile assessment (EYFSP) during the reception year.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the response to Question 130185, the two assessments have different purposes. The RBA is a brief teacher-mediated assessment that will take place at the beginning of the reception year to establish a baseline for a new school-level progress measure between reception and Year 6. This means there will no longer be a need to test children at Key Stage 1. The EYFSP is intended to provide parents, carers and Year 1 teachers with a rounded assessment of a child’s knowledge, abilities and development at the end of the reception year.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/03/2018 15:42:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin